Papers

Cristina Fiani, Robin Bretin, Mark McGill, and Mohamed Khamis. 2025. "Abracadabra, Block the Bullies!": Child Perceptions of Manual, Semi-Automated and Automated Interventions against Group Harassment in Social VR. In Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 314–339. https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3728850

Cristina Fiani, Robin Bretin, Shaun Alexander Macdonald, Mohamed Khamis, and Mark McGill. 2024. "Pikachu would electrocute people who are misbehaving": Expert, Guardian and Child Perspectives on Automated Embodied Moderators for Safeguarding Children in Social Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 113, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642144

Cristina Fiani, Pejman Saeghe, Mark McGill, and Mohamed Khamis. 2024. Exploring the Perspectives of Social VR-Aware Non-Parent Adults and Parents on Children's Use of Social Virtual Reality. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 54 (April 2024), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3652867

Cristina Fiani, Robin Bretin, Mark McGill, and Mohamed Khamis. 2023. Big Buddy: Exploring Child Reactions and Parental Perceptions towards a Simulated Embodied Moderating System for Social Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3589374

Cristina Fiani, Robin Bretin, Mark McGill, and Mohamed Khamis. 2023. Big Buddy: A Simulated Embodied Moderating System to Mitigate Children’s Reaction to Provocative Situations within Social Virtual Reality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 53, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585840

Cristina Fiani, Mark McGill, and Mohamed Khamis. 2023. Ensuring Child Safety in Social VR: Navigating Different Perspectives and Merging Viewpoints. In CHI '23 Workshop: Combating Toxicity, Harassment, and Abuse in Online Social Spaces, April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Dr Aydin Abadi, Prof Madeline Carr, Dr Ignacio Castro, Dr Alicia Cork, Dr Andrés Domínguez, Cristina Fiani, Dr Mohamed Khamis, Dr Mark McGill, Prof Steven Murdoch, Prof Awais Rashid, Dr Pejman Saeghe, Dr Gareth Tyson, & Dr Ola Michalec (Ed.) (2023). REPHRAIN White Paper: the Metaverse and Web 3.0. REPHRAIN National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online. 

Cristina Fiani and Stacy Marsella. 2022. Investigating the Non-verbal Behavior Features of Bullying for the Development of an Automatic Recognition System in Social Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 67, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531073.3534492

Avery, J., Runciman, M., Fiani, C., Sanchez, E. M., Akhond, S., Liu, Z., Aristovich, K., & Mylonas, G. (2022). Lumen Shape Reconstruction using a Soft Robotic Balloon Catheter and Electrical Impedance Tomography. In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 3414-3421). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981150

Fiani, C., Aristovich K. & Avery, J. 2021. Improving Aortic Stent Sizing Through Integrated Impedance Measurements. In Proceedings of the International Conference EIT 2021, Galway, Ireland. Abstract Conference Proceedings.